Background
GRABOWSKI, Henry George was born in 1940 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
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The Impact of Regulation on Industrial Innovation
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1979-06 edition. Excerpt: ...also pointed out that the direct regulatory control procedures used by the EPA in water (and air) pollution do not provide strong positive incentives for firms to develop pollution-reducing technological advances. Rather, the current laws tend instead to channel the firm's efforts toward those approaches that have been sanctioned by regulatory authorities and that will avoid trouble in gaining their approval. Charles Schultze of the CEA has pointed out that laws that mandate regulatory authorities to impose the "best available technology" operate as a strong deterrent to experimentation with new techniques and technologies. He asks in this regard, "will firms in polluting industries sponsor research or undertake experimentation to develop a new means of reducing pollution still further if its very availability will generate new and more stringent regulations?" (Schultze, 1977, p. 53). The point, of course, is not that environmental legislation has not created a substantial demand for new pollution-control technologies. There is no question that this legislation has accelerated the development of numerous new technologies for pollution control. There are even instances in which innovation in pollution-control equipment has had positive spillover effects on firm efficiency and profitability as well as yielding broader social gains. But there is also ample evidence from which we conclude that the centralized mode of direct regulatory controls used in this country is not the best approach for encouraging such pollution-reducing technologies. The experiences in regulating air pollution from auto emissions (discussed below) provides a particularly good case illustration of this point. In place of the present centralized bureaucratic system...
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Multilayer Flexible Packaging: Technology and Applications for the Food, Personal Care, and Over-the-Counter Pharmaceutical Industries (Plastics Design Library)
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A comprehensive and highly practical survey of the materials, hardware, processes and applications of flexible plastic films. Aimed at a wide audience of engineers, technicians, managers, purchasing agents and users, Multilayer Flexible Packaging provides a thorough introduction to the manufacturing and applications of flexible plastic films, covering: • Materials • Hardware and Processes • Multilayer film designs and applications The materials coverage includes detailed sections on polyethylene, polypropylene and additives. The dies used to produce multilayer films are explored in the hardware section, and the process engineering of film manufacture explained, with a particular focus on meeting specifications and targets. The section includes unique coverage of the problematic area of bending technology, providing a unique explanation of the issues involved in the blending of viscoelastic non-Newtonian polymeric materials. About the author John R. Wagner, Jr. is President of Crescent Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in plastic films and flexible packaging. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering.
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Henry George GRABOWSKI
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Education
Bachelor of Science (Engineering and Physics) Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1962. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy Princeton University, 1964,1967.
Career
Lector, Assistant Professor, Yale University, 1966-1967, 1967-1971. Research Association, National Bureau of Economie Research, New York, New York, United States of America, 1971-1972. Association Professor, Duke University, 1972-1976.
Research Fellow, Internal Institute, Institution Management, Berlin, 1976.
Visiting Scholar, Health Care Financing Administration, United States Office of Research, Washington, District of Columbia, 1979-1980. Professor of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, since 1976.
Association Editor, International J. Industrial Organization, since 1980.
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United States Social Science Research Council, United Kingdom or United States of America Research Fellow, 1968. Member, National Academy of Sciences, United States of America, Committee Technology, 1978-1979. Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, since 1980. Member, Institute, Institution Medicine Committee Vaccine Innovation, since 1983. Member, Board of Directors, University Rochester Center for Study of Drug Development, since 1983.
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Multilayer Flexible Packaging: Technology and Applications for the Food, Personal Care, and Over-the-Counter Pharmaceutical Industries (Plastics Design Library)
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The Impact of Regulation on Industrial Innovation
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Multilayer Flexible Packaging: Technology and Applications for the Food, Personal Care, and Over-the-Counter Pharmaceutical Industries (Plastics Design Library)
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My research has focussed on the economics of technological change, government regulation of business and related topics in industrial organisation. I have analysed these topics in terms of both specific industry studies as well as from a broader empirical perspective. My initial work investigated industrial research and development activity, analysing its determinants as well as effects.
This research was later broadened to a more general analysis of corporate decision-making, which examined the allocation of cash flows across fixed capital investment, advertising, R&Doctorate, and other uses. About a decade ago I became interested in the effects of government regulation on innovation and other performance measures. This led to studies of government product safety regulations in several industries, including pharmaceuticals, automobiles, and other consumer-oriented products.
Among the principal findings of this research were that (1) regulation has had significant negative effects on innovation in industries subject to pre-market approval (like pharmaceuticals). (2) international comparative studies suggest that the more stringent United States regulations have had moderately higher benefits and much higher costs (compared with Western Europe). (3) consumer choice situations involving low probability events often result in significant underprotection against hazards (such as the case of automobile seat belt utilisation).
Most recently, I have been examining evolutionary models of technological change to study the effects and interaction between different government policies (regulatory, tax, property rights and industrial competition) on long-run trends in industrial innovation.
